College Football

[dlgood]

My goodness. Georgia Tech's offense will f'you up. I love the option, especially out of a modified run & shoot passing formation. Their blocking schemes are not to be trifled with.

If you ever wondered what Navy's offense would look like with near-NFL talent, it mostly looks like a lot of huge runs getting broken.

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[hjcallipygian.livejournal.com]

Yeah, Tech looks pretty good this year. The fake field goal was pretty well-done, as well. I wonder if they had instructions to actually kick it if someone covered the wideout?

[dlgood.livejournal.com]

I would think so. You don't ask him to make that pass if it's going to be hard.

[cactuswatcher.livejournal.com]

I didn't see the game, but heard about it. It seems like, in these days of high powered offenses, teams don't have the slightest idea of what to do when they get way ahead. They are so concentrated on big plays that they really have no idea of how to put a game away when time off the clock means more than yardage gained. Ball control currently seems a lost art. Consequently, like Clemson teams that should be finished off early keep coming back, till the team that was way ahead suddenly finds itself behind or barely ahead and turns the offense on full blast again. It would be exciting if you didn't see it week after week.

All the points scored in the 4th quarter these days is more a sign of the weakness of modern football rather than its strength. You hear commentators complain about offenses going conservative and getting out of rhythm. The real problem is that 'good' teams really aren't any good at being conservative and the defenses that were staggering find they can handle them nicely.

[dlgood.livejournal.com]

I didn't see the game, but heard about it. It seems like, in these days of high powered offenses, teams don't have the slightest idea of what to do when they get way ahead.

That wasn't this game at all. Georgia Tech runs triple option out of the flexbone. They run on over 80% of the plays - it's just the nature of their formation that leads to them breaking huge runs out of it. They are "conservative" and "big play" on offense at the same time.

Unfortunately for Tech, Clemson has a big and athletic Defensive line, which started to dominate the Tech O-Line. The ends took away the "belly" of the Option and GaTech couldn't move the ball. And if you can't get first downs, you can't kill clock or get big plays or do anything.

I think this was more a case of coaching staffs making adjustments to get back into games. (Clemson in the 3rd quarter, Tech in the 4th)

The biggest problem Tech has is the QB - in the long run, they need him to be a passing threat, but at this stage he's not. (Which hurts doubly, as pass plays are the only time he doesn't have to run.) And since QB is the one runner that doesn't rotate out in this offense, by the end of the game he's too gassed to break the big runs that the Option was starting to open up for him.